Lu Wu

"Your Majesty, hurry up! King Yan is about to attack!" A lady-like figure pushed Emperor Jianwen towards the corner gate of the imperial garden.

"Zixiao, the city is broken, and my country is lost, where else can I go?" The young Emperor Jianwen looked depressed.He has only been on the throne for four years, and all his ambitions and ideals have only begun to take shape under the guidance of the three Confucian masters Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and Fang Xiaoru.He is not reconciled, he really is not reconciled to ruining the country that his grandfather entrusted to him like this.

"Your Majesty, if you leave the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. The Empress and His Royal Highness will come to meet you immediately. As long as you can escape, you will come back one day." Zi Xiao persuaded with tears.

"Then how could the King of Yan give up? He has always been ruthless in his actions, and he cannot escape." Emperor Jianwen shook his head, thinking of the fate of being caught by King Yan, he couldn't help shivering.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, this servant has a good plan, as long as you and your empress can escape here safely with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Zi Xiao knelt on her knees and continued to plead.

"What's a good strategy?" Emperor Jianwen was surprised, his great court lady was always resourceful, but now the soldiers were approaching the city, and the situation was critical, unless there were some extra soldiers to help, even Da Luo Jinxian would not be able to save him.

"Your Majesty, Zixiao has served you for so many years, and his loyalty can be learned from. You can rest assured that you will go out of the palace with your empress, ma'am

The country left to you by the Emperor Zu is not good for those rebellious officials and thieves to suffer, Your Majesty. " Zixia kowtowed heavily.

While speaking, Emperor Jianwen's empress and eldest son Zhu Wenkui, under the guidance of Eunuch Liu, the palm seal eunuch, also changed their costumes and came to the corner gate.

"Eunuch Liu, His Majesty has entrusted them to you. Please take them to a safe place. Zixiao is here to thank you for your kindness." After saying this, Zixiao was about to kneel down, but was lifted up by Eunuch Liu.

"Miss Zixiao is serious. This is what our family should do. Our family admires Miss Zixiao's righteousness today. Please take care of yourself." A small group of ten Jinyi guards sneaked out through the corner gate to protect Emperor Jianwen and his party.

Not long after, the city of Nanjing was broken.A huge fire broke out in the palace.King Yan ordered people to lead a team to fight the fire.After the fire was extinguished, only a piece of broken beams and pillars remained in the Qianqing Palace.A sharp-eyed soldier found three charred bodies in the chaos.

King Yan came soon after receiving the report.

"Gather all the people who are still alive in the palace to this king!" King Yan ordered harshly.

Soon, there were people kneeling on the ground in front of Qianqing Palace.

"Say, where is Zhu Yunqi?" King Yan waved his hand, and the whip flew across the air, leaving behind a sharp whistling sound, which made everyone lower their bodies and tremble.

"Don't tell me? Come on, someone, hit me! Hit me until someone confesses!"

In response, a line of soldiers came out, each with a long whip in his hand.

When the court ladies and eunuchs at the front were about to face the first round of beating, an old eunuch kneeling in the middle of the third row stood up tremblingly.

"Report to King Yan, Your Majesty...Your Majesty has already been burned to death in this Qianqing Palace together with the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." As he spoke, the old eunuch wiped his eyes with his sleeves.

"Who are you?" Yan Wang doubted.

"The servant girl is the eunuch holding the pen of the supervisor of ceremonies."

"Oh? How did you know?" King Yan still didn't believe it.

"Because when the thieves attacked the city gate, the servant girl was advising His Majesty to save his life, but His Majesty did not want to live. It was passed that the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came here to discuss matters in the Qianqing Palace. Soon... soon, only the Empress and His Highness screamed separately. , the slaves were waiting to go in to check, but they saw flames sprang up in the hall, and soon the entire Qianqing Palace was burned." The old eunuch choked up several times, and King Yan's heart was on fire.

"Thief? You can scold me?" King Yan raised his sword eyebrows, holding the sword in his hand, and walked to the side of the old eunuch step by step. Without waiting for the old eunuch to answer, he pulled a flower, and the old eunuch's body and head were separated.

Panic broke out again, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old eunuch rose up.

"You thief! My uncle snatched my nephew's throne, and I'm not afraid that people in the world will laugh at me! Poor Your Majesty was buried alive in this sea of ​​flames, and the Emperor Tai Zu will not bypass you!"

As soon as the words fell, the little eunuch also fell straight down, but was pierced through the heart by King Yan's sword.

So far, King Yan has believed six points that these three charred corpses are the three people including Emperor Jianwen.

"Come here, order me down. If there are still people in the court and this palace who insult me, they will all be imprisoned, peeled off their skins and fried in oil! The female family members will also be punished as official prostitutes in the Jiaofang Division!"

A famous soldier led the way.

"In addition, I ordered someone to draw a portrait of Zhu Yunqi, and secretly passed it on to Jin Yiwei to investigate everywhere. If there is anyone who looks similar, I will kill him without mercy!"

"Yes!"

Under the escort of Eunuch Liu and ten Jin Yiwei, Emperor Jianwen and his party walked out of Nanjing along the moat.

On this day, when they had just rested in a ruined temple in the mountains, a Jinyi guard who went out to inquire hurriedly returned.

"Your Majesty, let's go! I discovered that in the village below the mountain, there are people holding portraits of His Majesty, Empress and His Highness asking around."

"What!" Emperor Jianwen was shocked, "Is he really going to kill them all?"

"So, Your Majesty, we shouldn't be on the road together anymore. The goal is too big. Why don't we divide into two routes, one for His Majesty, one for His Highness and one for Your Majesty, each heading northwest, okay?" Eunuch Liu suggested.

"Father, my son doesn't want to be separated from my father." Zhu Wenkui, who was only 6 years old, hugged Emperor Jianwen's leg and cried.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, don't speak loudly." Eunuch Liu was so anxious that he quickly comforted him.

"Kui'er is good, Kui'er and the queen mother will go first, and the emperor will come to meet us soon." Empress Ma put her arms around her son and comforted her in a soft voice.

"My dear concubine, I don't want to be separated from you either." Emperor Jianwen took Empress Ma's hand and held it over his heart, even though he had thousands of words, he knew that it was not appropriate to act emotionally at this time.

"Your Majesty, why are the concubines willing to part with you, but now it's just one of them, Your Majesty!" Empress Ma cried.

Immediately, Eunuch Liu divided the ten Jinyi guards into two groups, five in each group, one group protected Empress Ma and the prince first, and the other group stayed behind to protect Emperor Jianwen and set off later.Emperor Jianwen was worried about his wife and children, so he sent two Jin Yiwei who followed him over.Eunuch Liu has been with Emperor Jianwen since he was the prince, but he insisted on staying with Emperor Jianwen.

"My dear concubine, take care! Take care of the emperor, we...see you in the future." After speaking, Emperor Jianwen suddenly turned around, unable to bear to look any further, for fear that his heart would soften for a moment, and the time would be delayed, and King Yan would catch them all.

Since then, with the dream of reuniting his family and returning to the country, Emperor Jianwen has been hiding his name and wandering all the way. Under the escort of the remaining three Jinyi guards and one eunuch, he fled to the northwest.